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Amazing! They used a lifting device to lift things! Brilliant!
My Dad grew up in Europe with horse- and ox-powered farm equipment, and both at work and play here (construction, farming, and clearing land) he used come-alongs, chain-falls, pipe (to roll), and good old heavy steel levers to move rocks, fell trees, and reposition just about anything that he could get leverage on. I am proud to try to do the same, as a woman I push, roll, use ramps and come-alongs, and anything possible to do it solo before I seek help. (And I am the first to admit, the strongest female is NO WHERE near the strength of the average male).
He was fascinated with the theories on Egyptian and ancient construction and had his own. I bet those were some of the first things he wanted to check out on the other side.
Clever folks, those old classical Greeks. Too bad they were scattered to the winds and their ancestral homeland was occupied by others who were little more than barbarians.
A fate lying in wait for that territory once known as the “United States of America”, as it falls into decivilization and rapid balkanization.
Cribbing is a thing. It’s not complicated and can be done with a lever and wood.
I always thought they flipped them up there like “tiddly winks”.
Bravo Sierra. All that showed is that they might have cut grooves to enable slings to be removed. Where is the discussion of the CRANE they show lifting the blocks into position?
The use of levers they show in the second phase could be combined with cribbing to do the primary lift.
PhD needs to spend a couple of seasons with a modern rigging crew.
Noah would have needed some way to lift timbers for the ark as well. Wonder how he did it?